136 tobacco: its use and abuse. 



of tobacco, in affecting his health and happiness, by its 

 baneful influence on the process of digestion. And 1 

 can revert with much satisfaction to the grateful ex- 

 pressions I have received from many such patients on 

 restoration to health, after following my recommendation 

 Ho give up the use. of tobacco/ as you have expressed 

 it, ^ for ever.' " 



143. The following observations of the learned author 

 of the Zoonomia, accord with the medical opinions which 

 I have adduced regarding the injurious effects of tobacco 

 on the digestive organs : — 



Darwin, in his Zoonomia, vol. ii., page 701, thus ob- 

 serves : " The unwise custom of chewing and smoking 

 tobacco for many hours in a day, not only injures the 

 salivary glands, producing dryness in the mouth when 

 this drug is used, but I suspect that it also produces 

 scirrhus in the pancreas. The use of tobacco in this 

 immoderate degree injures the powers of digestion, by 

 occasioning the patient to spit out that saliva which he 

 ought to swallow; and hence produces that flatulency 

 which the vulgar unfortunately take it to prevent." 



At page 80 of the same volume, he says : " I saw 

 what I conjectured to be a tumor of the pancreas with 

 indigestion, and which terminated in the death of the 

 patient. He had been for many years a great consumer 

 of tobacco, in so much, that he chewed that noxious drug 

 all the morning, and smoked it all the afternoon." 



144. The following extract is from the Medical Times 

 and Gazette of 11th December, 1858 : — 



"To the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette— 

 Sir, I enclose a copy of a circular, which I have found 



